Escapist probably aren't normalfags though.
A normalfag wouldn't think of rusing evafags with such tried and true methods, in order to clickbait and boost their dwindling readerbase, who have little interest in endlessly regurgitated, publisher approved vidya shilling.

Anyway this is /v/ shit why is this even on /a/, and why do people get mad at Shinji because he isn't a generic alpha mecha pilot?

Isn't Shinji being an emotionally damaged kid forced into an absurd situation that just gets increasingly more absurd until he finally breaks down and then pulls himself together at the VERY end the premise of Eva?

I mean this is from watching 11 or so episodes and casually going through the occasional EVA thread.

>>100472821
This is actually pretty accurate.
I mean, the word "angst" is a little bit oversimplifying but at least it's not the ordinary "Shinji is a fag, I could have totally piloted a literal monstrosity putting my life at risk multiple times while simultaneously having a healthy and absolutely not awkward relationship with a dominant foreign girl when I was 14" that you find everywhere, even on /a/.

If they still have the view "shinji get in da fuckinn robot u puzzy xDDDDDDDDD" after finishing the whole of Eva it clearly shows that they have shit taste in anime and will for the rest of their sorry lives.

>>100472234>>100472640>>100472821
With every new comic it becomes clearer that this person doesn't have a fucking clue about Eva yet they still have this fucking smug air to them. Fuck off to /v/ with this shit.

The people who constantly misunderstand Eva like this watched it expecting a "fucking epic super robot show fuck year he's gonna go super saiyan with the robot and blow up the universe XD" aka fucking retards.

Shinji is a depressed little kid who gets the fate of the world guilt tripped on his shoulders and no one even bothers to ask him how he's feeling.

>>100473171
They can't write about anything controversial about their main topic(video games) that isn't related to feminism, since the companies would blacklist them.
So they just latch on to the nearest big thing to stir shit up.

>>100473274
Nah, it's just the general normalfag mindest "I've made it, why can't you?" or "I've never experienced such a difficulty in my life therefore you should just stop complaining and try harder".
Every notion of infeasibility or inadequacy is simply disregard as "Not trying hard enough" they can't even fathom that some people might have some real difficulties or lack of willpower, how the fuck can you expect them to relate to Shinji?

>>100473542
It's not even about that, it's a complete lack of ability to even understand Shinji's situation in the first place. They see it through their escapist "wow I'd sure be happy to pilot a giant robot" glasses.

>>100473542
By hitting them squarely in the jaw. If everyone does it, they can't stop us all... It's only a matter of time, police and military budgets are being cut every day in the USA, pretty soon it'll be legal to just jaw idiots, right where they stand

>>100472234
Amazing that they don't get that Shinji is a crippled little fuckup who is incapable of handling relationships because of his shitty childhood. It's not like this is subtle at all either, they have Ritsuko explain it in really blatant detail and even go so far as to name an episode after his specific problem (which is of course an episode all about Shinji's emotional problems).

I mean, you can say Eva is terrible junk but Shinji's character is neither mysterious or inconsistent.

The secret of Evangelion is that they took super robot pilots and reversed their genders
if Rei was male, he'd be the awesomely silent/cool/calm guy.
When he rushes that angel with an N2 mine under his arm sacrificing his life ... that is the scene where MANLY TEARS flow for A MAN'S WAY OF LIFE AND DEATH.
Asuka, if a man, would be an awesomely HOT BLOODED pilot. And pervy with his advances on Shinji, but a little tsundere.
And Shinji, as a weak little girl, as a girl, puts it into context. You'd be fapping furiously to Shinjiko every night because of her shy demeanour
And with girl Kaworu, Shinji x Kaworu would be amazingly hot.

>>100473612
To be fair the comic didn't insinuate anything other than frustration at him being a little emotion fuckwit and the fact that in all these years we have seen him repeat all these scenarios of intimacy but made no progress. I think its a pretty legitimate gripe.

>>100473779
I think the comic romanticizes a lot of the relationships in EVA though. Rei was distant and couldn't even understand herself, Asuka was sending mixed messages constantly, Misato...well she didn't REALLY make a move on him until EoE, and while Kaworu made progress...well we all know how that ended

Also a lot of people forget that around the middle of EVA Shinji got somewhat more assertive...but then all sorts of bad shit went down.

>>100474025>Or maybe it's because these are jokes? Ever think of that?
It's pretty clear that they think they are being so fucking smart while the only thing they are doing is repeating the same old normalfag ignorance.

And when they get called out they respond with a giant "fuck you, you just don't get our genius comedy". >>100473409

>>100473996
When was this? Sorry my memory of the show is hazy.>>100474015
Oh yeah, somehow people just block that stuff out on only remember they "whining">>100474020
That'd scare anyone shitless out of piloting an Eva.

>>100472640
I know it's meant to be a joke, but the entire point of eva is that things aren't as simple as that. It's not:>Here's a sweet handgun Shinji>Oh cool.
It's:>Here's a sweet handgun Shinji. Oh, and there's a guy outside on a shooting spree and you're the only one that can stop him. Don't fuck up!

It's pretty true, though. I was actually thinking of what Shinji is going through at the series which is why I didn't actually find him irritating. At the start, yes, I actually did, but it kinda sunk in on me that what he's going through is not easy.

>>100474088
What ignorance? These comics are PARODIES. They are not trying to be an master's thesis on Evangelion's themes and narrative. They don't have to be true to be funny.
Of course, you're still free to not consider them funny, but don't say things like "but it's WRONG" - yeah, no shit.

>>100474231> "lol he shud fug them :D"
Seems like to some people this is the only recurring purpose in life and the thing which they draw their sense of self-worth from. Present them with a situation or problem which can not be immediately solved that way and with a character who is incapable of normal relationships and they desperately cling to that "lol he shud fug them :D". Maybe because the implication that this being their main source of self-worth may really be superficial and ultimately insufficient scares the shit out of them. Natural recourse is denial.

>>100474231
My problem was that they said it but didn't show it. You were blatantly told that he was afraid of people but it's difficult to understand why. The main catalyst for his personality is his neglect at a young age. The audience members who didn't experience neglect need to be shown it in a way they can relate to. Also, there are audience members who did experience neglect but can't relate to his behavior. In the end only a minority of the viewers can understand Shinji as he is presented.

>>100472640
This comic is mediocre at best and terrible at worst but this is clearly a tongue and cheek joke. All of you going "SHE CLEARLY DOESN'T UNDERSTAND EVA" are taking it way too seriously. Especially when there isn't much that needs to be understood.

>>100472234>>100472640
This pretty much sums it up. Shinji is a fucked up loser and whiny protagonist. The whole bullshit symbolism has been overhyped for the last decade even though anno has confirmed it means nothing. Let it die you dumb fucks.

>>100474564>The show isn't "serious" like the fans say, that's the point.
And his argument is that it's been used to advertise products? How the fuck does that make sense? I once saw a seafood place called "Moby Dick", does that mean the novel is also shit?
God you're retarded.

>>100474700>that think shiji is a beta or some other retarded thing
But that's what the artist thinks. We really shouldn't be so brought up by a comic that was made by a normalfag. It's basically just an opinion of a normalfag put into comics, which we should also ignore.

>>100474649
That one isn't about understanding anything, its just a tongue in cheek joke that if you look at it from a different perspective Gendo is throwing every kids' dream at his son (shit tons of women and getting to pilot a giant robot) and yet Shinji hates him. This chick makes much worse garbage and this one by no means should be something you get riled at since its clearly tongue and cheek.

>>100474387>why would Shinji let Rei pilot the Eva? Don't they understand that Shinji's complex character has empathy? Fucking normalfags!
See, I'm being you right now.

They don't have to "get the point" to be funny. Hell, a lot of times, the joke revolves around an uninvolved person "not getting the point". Why do you people need to take everything so seriously? It's like feminists complaining about kitchen jokes because in reality, women do other things than be in the kitchen and the jokes are LYING.

Evangelion isn't as deep as you fags seem to think, the latter episodes are just cobbled together gibberish because Anno lost his god damned mind for a while.
There is no meaning to it, so you all just look stupid trying to make sense of it with hundreds of theories.

Yes, they even acknowledged this in the strip (not taking the high road) and reasoned it as being because evangelion fans just bitched and whined about the last strip. Dumb complaints get dumb answers.

>>100474700
Easy as shit.
You take this comic >>100472640
and replace Gendo's likes with:>I want you to pilot this 80 meters tall abomination clad in armor by directly linking your brain to it. Also, there's a high chance it will infect your mind and drive you insane,>And live with this maladjusted alcoholic with daddy issues>And this one, an abusive, cocky cunt whose favorite hobbies are berate and insult you.>Feisty redheads not your things? How about this apathetic, barely talking clone of your own mother whose loss you still haven't overcome?

>>100474940
If that's your rationalization for dismissing NGE because you don't want to interpret and think about it, that's fine. But don't blame the people that do and have been doing so for many years.

>>100474986>Lets say that some neofolk progressive viking metal band trows buckets full of shit with cryptographic messages attached on their fans that actually make sense if you solve the puzzle.>It makes it a serious piece of art?
Only if there's a girl on every one of those messages to please the waifufags

>>100475056
Have you seen Room 237? Where people have spent 30+ years developing theories about what the meaning of The Shining is?
It's autism of the worst kind and Evangelion is the anime equivalent.

>>100474986>Lets say that some neofolk progressive viking metal band trows buckets full of shit with cryptographic messages attached on their fans that actually make sense if you solve the puzzle.>It makes it a serious piece of art?

>The films are for hard-core fans only, with minimal exposition or character development. The convoluted plot will make any neophyte more confused than a dog in space. Desiccated by its pretensions, it's freeze-dried melodrama.

Like, seriously. I don't know if you guys just want one concrete meaning, or just no meaning at all, but art, literature, film, music don't really work like that. The average human mind doesn't really work like that.

>>100475158
Well, people can always be sheep. If they don't want to bother to try and form their own opinion then there's no helping them. Not that you shouldn't take heed of others' opinions, because they can hold value, but unreservedly subscribing to them is something I don't like doing, cause it's barely thinking for yourself.

>>100475782
Fuck you and all the people still talk about eva, trolls included. It's like being married, you come home to the same bitch with the same argument, same whining and same bullshit stories to tell.